Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus

I've written on the subjects of environmental and animal ethics, veganism,  great ape social behaviors and intelligence, the arts from an evolutionary perspective, character, morality, and consciousness. Academic books in reverse chronological order; see left-hand side panel for links. For edited themed literary anthologies, go HERE.

• Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics. Oxford: Peter Lang. Series on Plants and Animals: Interdisciplinary Approaches, 2025. 

• The Vegan Evolution: Transforming Diets and Agriculture. London: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment, 2022. 

• An Ape Ethic and the Question of Personhood. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 

• Art and Adaptability: Consciousness and Cognitive Culture. Leiden: Brill, 2018. In the series on consciousness and the arts. 

• Evolution and Human Culture: Texts and Contexts. Leiden: Brill, 2016. In the philosophy series on cognitive science. 

• Making Mind: Moral Sense and Consciousness in Philosophy, Science, and Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014. In the series on consciousness and the arts. 

• Origins of English Dramatic Modernism, 1870-1914. As Co-Editor (with Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe) and Contributor. Bethesda: Academica Press, 2010. 

• Origins of English Literary Modernism, 1870-1914. As Editor and Contributor. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2009. 

• Ethos and Behavior: The English Novel from Jane Austen to Henry James. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2008. 

• Character and Consciousness: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2005. 

REPRESENTATIVE ESSAYS

Humanity's Language: A Meditation on Nature. An ASEBL Opinion Essay. 6 January 2025. https://www.asebl.net/2025/01/humanitys-language-meditation-on-nature.html 

“The Wildlife State of Gaia.” The American Philosophical Association: Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy. 11 July 2024. https://blog.apaonline.org/2024/07/11/the-wildlife-state-of-gaia/ 

Animals as Medical Experiments. An ASEBL Opinion Essay. 21 November 2023. https://www.asebl.net/2023/11/animals-as-medical-experiments.html

An open letter to Peter Godfrey-Smith in response to his anti-veganism essay in Aeon magazine. Authored with assistance from Fredericka Jacks. 3 July 2023 on the ASEBL site. https://www.asebl.net/2023/07/an-open-letter-to-peter-godfrey-smith.html

“An Evolutionary Case for Veganism.” Mother Pelican, January 2023. 19.1. http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv19n01page12.html

“Is There Moral Justification to Eat Meat?” The Ecological Citizen. January 2023. 6 (1): epub-082. https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/article.php?t=is-there-moral-justification-to-eat-meat There’s a related video of me speaking on this subject (15 minutes) here: https://youtu.be/uwFEqJmbk6E

“Art and Adaptability: Consciousness and Cognitive Culture.” Long essay in Montreal Review. Online, January 2022. https://themontrealreview.com/Articles/Art-and-Adaptability.php

“An Ape Ethic and the Question of Personhood.” Long essay in Montreal Review. Online, September 2021. Print, October 2021. https://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/An-Ape-Ethic-and-the-Question-of-Personhood.php 

“Primates are not...” Trace: Journal for Human-Animal Studies. 2021. 7 (1): 150-154. https://trace.journal.fi/article/view/99538